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I don't think they need to create an account but by adding the reseller token they have remote access to your domain, it seems you can turn this off manually afterwards in the settings, but not clear if this prevents them maintaining the licenses in the future.

Thanks Fiza, That's what they were asking for, seems crazy to me and totally unnecessary, transfer control of my domain from Google to a reseller with admin privileges so they can allocate Google licenses to my Google product... what?!

Thanks, I've just sent them an email via their website, is there a quicker method via here? I see VeryPC_Nicole has liked the reply.

Hi, Has anyone bought Enterprise for Education licenses recently? I'm just in the process of getting a quote from a reseller and they are basically wanting us to transfer our entire Google domain to their control with full admin access. This seems completely unnecessary just to buy some licenses! Thanks,

I believe DPM needs Hyper-V installed, just checking my 2019 DPM Server it has Hyper-V installed. From my cloudy memory if it's not installed the DPM Installer will add it during pre-requisites check, it doesn't install any Hyper-V Management Tools though.

Did those of you who require GSuite sign in enable the YouTube 'app' for students in GSuite then? When I looked at this to use the 'Approve' options in YouTube the students had to be able to login to YouTube using their GSuite account which required them to have the YouTube service enabled against their account which: 1) Requires Parental approval for under 13s and 2) Allows Students to upload content to their school YouTube channel for all the world to view. Is that still the case?

RDP on to the Core server and use the command line to run the exe? I've done it for Dell firmware updates for iDRAC as well as NIC drivers and never had any issue the window pops up and the wizards run through as normal.

Out of curiosity, which MDM did you switch from?

I think back then it was £35k + VAT. That was for 4 nodes each has a 2x 12 core Xeon CPUs, 256GB RAM, and a total of 20TB of usable storage (after mirroring) across the cluster. This compared to other quotes we had from Nutanix which was £150k + VAT and HP SAN solution which was around £65k (and only 2 nodes)

I'd agree with DrCheese, It does have specific requirements like RDMA on the storage network ports and non-RAID storage controller for its disks, you need to be aware of these if you intend to use refurb or existing kit. We spoke to Dell about S2D back in 2017 and they were very helpful with speccing a 4 node system for us including chats with their tech people and getting a demo system running in one of their data systems. The costs were far lower than we were seeing for other Hyper-Converged systems. At the same time we spoke to Dell we contacted HP, their sales team only wanted to get us to buy another StoreVirtual SAN and when we said we were only looking at S2D they never got back to us, despite the fact they were one of the manufacturers MS had worked with for reference architecture. In the end not only did HP not get a sale from our server refresh we decided later in the project to refresh our core and edge switches so ripped out pretty much all the HP switches and replaced it with Dell

Was hoping to see some Library management stuff but I can't see Accessit or Oliver in the list of suppliers/products. I was also hoping Jamf would be there in person so I could rant at them for their... lacklustre support over the last 12 months!

I think you could always rename however nowadays MS don't promote it, plus if you have Exchange, MS SQL, or pretty much any MS Server Applications you'll need to create a new domain and migrate. Personally I'd create a new domain (and have in the past) as I can imagine a rename causing many difficult to trace issues.

We started with new Dell Servers, then decided to replace our HP Core Switches as they were quite old and didn't support all the functionality. Then we decided we wanted to get 10GB to the edge switches and the price HP were charging for 10GB GBICs it was only slightly more expensive to buy new Dell edge switches with all the 10GB GBICs we needed so we replaced ~80% of the edge switches to. Couldn't fault Dell, they were quick to provide a quote, answered all our questions and put us in contact with their networking specialists and S2D people to answer questions, we even got a few days with a S2D test system in one of their data centres to see how it all worked. I contacted HPE and Dell on the same day, I spoke to Dell who took all my requirements and used their DPAC service to evaluate our existing infrastructure. HPE called and weren't interested in quoting for S2D they just wanted to sell us a HP SAN or one of their HP Hyper-converged systems, I told them I was willing to look at them but wanted quotes for S2D servers to... I'm still waiting.

Thanks for that, do you know what happens with 3rd party services that allow you to 'Login with Google'?

I've been looking at switching our Google Apps to ADFS (or more recently Azure AD) for SSO on and off for a few years. Has anyone else done this? I'd like to test it but all the guides I've read say that as soon as you enable it everyone will be logged out of Google Apps even if you revert the changes. How do iPads handle this? I guess the Google Apps now work ok, but what about the Mail app? Are all logins the ADFS/Azure logins or do you still need your Google Apps login for certain functions? Can you use Google Apps with Azure AD Basic? Are there any hidden costs? Thanks